CollabNet Ready for Cloud Development Launch!

On Monday look for lots of exciting news and change from CollabNet. Our commitment to advance the development and deployment of applications in the cloud will be center stage! For our customers, partners, employees and the community at large, Monday’s events will mark a new evolution in modern software development. True to our core business values, the coming advancements are open in nature, inviting and centered on the key word that makes up the basis of our company name – collaboration. We say this in a broad sense – from the individual developer and distributed teams to emerging partners in the PaaS space and established commercial Agile and ALM vendors. We have a clear vision – to drive new levels of value from Agile, ALM, DevOps and cloud development through a community and open approach.

Jim Ensell leads Marketing, Strategy, Business Development, and Online/Cloud Services at CollabNet. In this role, Jim is responsible for driving growth, raising awareness of CollabNet among global business leaders, and building its role as a strategic partner to companies looking to gain global market value from product innovation, sustainability, and excellence in the cloud. He brings more than 25 years of experience in engineering, technology, business, and executive management, with a proven track record of fueling substantial growth in both large and small enterprises. Jim joined CollabNet from rfXcel, a SaaS provider of track and trace supply chain applications, where he was President and COO. Prior to rfXcel, Jim was Senior VP of Marketing and Business Development at Virage Logic, where he ran worldwide marketing, business and corporate development. Before that Jim served in various executive-level business and technology roles at eSilicon Corporation and Cadence Design Systems during their rapid growth periods.
Jim is an industry leading speaker and thought leader on software development in private and public clouds, and the strategic implementation of new business models enabled by cloud-based collaborative development and open source. He focuses his attention on providing executive leadership and management of the Company’s marketing organization including in-bound and out-bound marketing activities worldwide, and in developing synergistic partnerships that can both organically and inorganically accelerate CollabNet’s footprint in the market.
Jim holds an MSEE from the University of Pennsylvania and a BSEE from Villanova University.